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61) Exit Elena
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Elena takes a job as a live-in aide and is thrust into the middle of a family crisis. She strikes a balance until the family's prodigal son comes home.. Nominated for Best Film at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.. "[Director Nathan] Silver locates the ordinary madness bubbling just beneath the surface of his own life, and flickers of lunacy abound ..." - Calum Marsh, Village Voice. "Nathan Silver's film is a quiet and...
62) Lead Balloon: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As world-weary comedian and writer Rick Spleen will tell you, he's on the up, his career is going from strength to strength. In other words, nothing much has changed. As his career lurches from one disaster to the next, Rick also has to cope with crises on the domestic front - not the least of which is a bedridden Mel, who has to battle to recover from the flu before Rick manages to lose every C-list client her agency has on its books. Rick even manages...
63) Josh: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Josh Widdicombe returns for a second series of this quirky comedy about the highs and lows of life as an anxious old man trapped in a young man's body. Things don't run smoothly for Josh as he gets embroiled with a sexually voracious older woman, attempts to evict a drug-taking squatter from his flat and tries to end ten years of friendship with the world's most boring man, aka Pete the Human Potato. Expect plenty of high-pitched grumbling, a glossary...
64) Twelfth Night
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. With practical jokes, poetry and haunting songs, this is the most subtle of Shakespeare's comedies. In an aristocratic country house, we see the infatuation of Orsino,...
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompous, but endearing dog called Wally. A "professional" in home safety, Wally is assigned to a house with an infant whose parents have little safety consciousness. Accidents and near-accidents succeed each other with lightning speed, constantly putting Wally to the test.. Winner of the Special Prize for...
66) Josh: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A flat-share sitcom about the minutiae of modern life, written by and starring fast-rising comedian Josh Widdicombe. Frustrated, single and reliably grumpy, Josh shares a flat with his two best friends: Owen, a romantic Welshman as laid-back as Josh is uptight; and Kate, a perfectionist who spends her life pursuing every trend from A to Zumba. This trio of twenty-somethings also have to contend with Geoff, their irritating landlord. Josh is hampered...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Don Alfonso plays the marimba for a living. When he meets an old underground heavy-metal legend, they decide to do something radical and fuse both sounds. A fresh and hilarious documentary-fiction hybrid about the fusion between tradition and modernity that conveys a moving and authentic sense of Guatemalan life.. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.. “This largely comic look at one determined marimba player’s struggles...
68) McLintock!
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
In this classic comic western, aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans.. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But...
69) Give Out Girls
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Diana Vickers and Tracey Ann Oberman star in this sharply observed comedy about a gang of four girls (and a couple of guys) who work in the world of 'promotions'. A world that's instantly recognisable to anyone who's ever done a job simply to pay the rent, it's a show about doing a job rather than having a career, working hard at avoiding work and how, because you spend so much time with them, your work colleagues become your mates by default. They...
70) Lead Balloon: S3
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jack Dee returns once again to the screens as the hapless Rick Spleen. Despite professional and domestic crises, Rick manages to hold his head up high and retain his self-respect. Well, actually, no he doesn't - getting the worst score of all time on a much-loved radio panel show, and the disclosure of his real name on a show about family trees certainly does away with any remaining pride. Domestic chaos, social mishaps and professional disasters...
71) Buddymoon
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
David is left by his fiancé days before the wedding, and Flula, his eccentrically upbeat best man, insists that they go on David’s honeymoon together: a backpacking trip through Oregon’s scenic mountains. Prepare to laugh when the pair crosses paths with a dazed conspiracy theorist, an attractively charming backpacker, and a bloodthirsty predator who all partake in a trek that tests their friendship – and their lives. The BUDDYMOON adventures...
72) Mute
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From the Oscar-nominated team Job, Joris & Marieke, MUTE turns into something terrifying into a sweet and charming story via acclaimed animation. In a world populated by people without mouths, a gory accident leads to the discovery of speech, creating an enthusiastic chain reaction among the population!. "An adorable society of popsicle-shaped people straining against the horror of mouthlessness—until one of them discovers a repulsive yet joy-inducing...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. A spirited production of the first of Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies. The sparring wit of the confirmed bachelor, Benedick, and the haughty lady Beatrice...
74) Semi-Detached
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Lee Mack stars in this farcical family sitcom about a divorced couple living on the same street. Playing out in real time, this madcap sitcom is packed with exquisitely timed mayhem. With each episode, a new crisis kicks off in Stuart’s life. Stuart hasn’t exactly made it easy for himself. His ex-wife lives across the street, his alcohol-swilling dad lives in the bedroom next door and his new girlfriend, not to mention his daughter, can be a tad...
75) Lead Balloon: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jack Dee stars as Rick Spleen, a disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer. His career has not quite gone the way he had hoped; hosting corporate events and appearing on second-rate daytime chat shows was not meant to be part of the plan. Worse still, he's stuck with a lousy stage name that he chose twenty years ago. Whether he is being accused of putting on weight, suspected of being gay or worried about accidentally poisoning another performer,...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Shakespeare uses one of this favorite devices -- trickery -- in a plot relished by Elizabethan playgoers. The new wife of a young count resorts to chicanery to win...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Will Packham is an idealistic pupil barrister - or idealistic for now. His clients are at least as guilty as sin. His pupilmaster Caroline thinks he is a gutless snowflake. His fellow pupils want the same job as him and would stab each other to get it. Over the course of two days, Will has to defend a would-be murderer, keep a young slam poet out of custody and fetch Caroline a range of pastries. Can Will hold onto his principles and prove he has...
78) Impostors
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A polysexual vaudeville playing promiscuously with melodramatic intrigue, camp and intellectual gamesmanship, IMPOSTORS remains as unclassifiable as it was in 1979.. Its slippery "plot" centers on the romance between besotted Peter and elusive Tina. She's a faithless bisexual and beauteous onstage assistant to lookalike magicians Mikey and Chuckie (stage legend Charles Ludlam of Manhattan's Ridiculous Theatrical Company) who, for their part, inhabit...
79) Stella: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Starring and created by Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones, Stella is a heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working class Wales. The fictional town of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys is home to Stella Morris - a 40-something divorcee with three kids and an ironing business. Eldest child Luke is in prison. Daughter Emma is 16, gorgeous, lazy and in love whilst Ben, the 13 year old brains of the family, has a natural inquisitiveness...
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this darkly funny drama, a pregnant woman disrupts the lives of her alcoholic mother and vulgar lesbian sister during a nervous breakdown.. Winner of an Audience Choice Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.. "The actresses bring heart and nuance to their characters, whose verbal pushing and shoving go with their sisterly and maternal bonds." - Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An angry rejoinder to 'Tiny Furniture'...Drew Tobia’s...
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